Hermana Ginger's first week!

HEY MOM!!! MAKE SURE TO SEND THIS TO EVERYBODY!!!! :)
LONGEST YEAR OF MY LIFE AND SPANISH SUCKS!!! OK BYE....

hahahahah chiste (joke) but seriously this past week has been so slow and spanish is the easiest language to learn here and obviously I don't feel that way. But I'm pretty blessed cause I saw Christian Fowler from Sharps ward and he's been here 10 weeks learning cambodian... so I guess I won't complain.

So I guess ill just start at the fist day cause im sure you're dying to hear everything... after you dropped me off and I got my "hermana Boer" badge I SAW LARISSA!!!! :):) i just started bawling. and was like why am i crying. haha it was so good to see her first thing.. then after i got to my room and checked to see who my companion was. MADISON COBURN!! from georgia, hahaha i was so happy after that. We've gotten along so well and shes just a blessing in my life.. shes so spiritual.. haha anyways

so i get my 100 pound bag of materials and i sit in my class. once everybody is there, the teacher starts shooting off spanish like its her day job. its funny cause it is her day job;) hahahaha and in my head im just thinking what am i doing with my life. hahaha so after they took us to a nice little missionary rule devo... I've never heard so many rules, jk then the feed us...

There are so many people here its so overwhelming. and everybody is saying hello to you in their language they are speaking. so crazy... they feed us so much food and is so gross. jk its like a really good leftover for school lunch. but the chocolate milk is fanfreakintastic. obviously...

Then they give us some nice little (big) group role plays of investigators. The spirit is so strong here, angels walk the halls I swear. Its amazing. and then we meet our zone leaders which I love and we go to bed... it went by so fast, and then 6:30AM comes faster.... hahaha

There are 10 of us in my district. 6 boys and 4 girls, all the elders are going to mexico and us girls are going to the rica. es muy bien!! we get along so well im going to miss them all when we leave. i say that now... hahah jk es okeyyy i love them all so so much!!!

We get to class and our teacher tells us we're going to be teaching an investigator in straight spanish on friday. he laughed at all the looks on our faces. literally all i do here is study eat, classroom, study eat classroom, eat.... IM GOING TO GAIN A MILLION POUNDS!!!!! but dont worry, I take gym time very seriously. like yesterday I beat 8 boys at lightning, revenge style. I AM THE QUEEN OF THE COURT Y'ALL. haha and so humble about it too.... but really if those already XL skirts dont fit me,,,,

so back to my days.... Thursday night we met out branch president. he is sooooo amazing!!! and his counselors are hilarious. OH, so i saw Tyler White, the Palmers cousin!! and also a girl from my mission prep class, ... oh and I saw Sam Tetterton from SVU. he was like, hey Joce! i mean.. uhh hermana Boer? hhaha too funny. oh and Jacob Wolfely from p-town. I guess Alex White from p-town left last monday for costa rica so once i get there i'll probs see him and Jacob Smoot from SVU. woot woot party...

ok so obviously my P-days are on wednesday always. and i'll be writing to you usually around this time. (sorry my spelling sucks) (and we get an hour to email now!! woot woot!)

So friday Im just freaking out by now about what we teach our first investigator... his name is Pedro, he's fake.. but real. haha we know him by Sam and he's a teacher here... anyways. ok iv'e never prayed so much in my life or read my scriptures so much haahah so after we plan out what we wanna talk about with Pedro we get into his "home" and I'm feeling pretty confident with what i wanna say and such. So I said my prayer in spanish and im like alright I got this... and you can totes feel the spirit. anyways, so hermana coburn is just chatting away. she looks at me so i can say what i planned. i opened my mouth... NOTHING COMES OUT!!! hahahahha and i look like a deer in the headlights. so hermana just starts talking again then I just bear my testimony and leave... too funny...

everybody in my district is so hard on themselves and I'm like laughing cause we were only there for 2 days!! hahaha oh my goodness

I shouldve stayed awake for confrence a long time ago I would have gotten so much more out of it! THANK YOU so much for the conference treats, it made me so so happy!! you are the best :) ok so my fav talk was probably President Eyring. BLEW MY MIND!!! it was so good... his testimony was so amazing... and then the bishop who talked about marriage... I was like what am I doing here, I'm suppose to get married hahahaha but then I got confirmation from like 6 other general authorities that I'm where I'm supposed to be and that this is what I'm supposed to be doing, so I'm golden...

THANK YOU FOR THE DEAR ELDERS!!!!! tell everyone about them cause honestly is like christmas... or super bowl sunday... or you buying my chocolate milk at the store. hahah ITS THAT EXCITING TO GET LETTERS other than emails.

ok so after conference we went to the temple and did a temple walk. it was so awesome. we saw 3 other girls going to costa rica... I will send and email soon with pics of everything this past week. monday it snowed.. or tuesday i can never remember what day it is.. its such a blur. anyways so monday we taught our second lesson with pedro it went alot smoother. haha and tonite is our 3rd lesson and tomorrow is our last..

Hermana Johnson, my zone sister coordinator had a meeting with me cause I'm senior companion so I have to report to her and stuff... anyways so we were talking and she is THE sweetest person ever, and she said the most sweetest things ever, exactly what I needed to hear.. it was pretty much just an echo of my setting apart blessing. honestly she is soooo spiritual and I love it. We were bawling.

hahaha its an emotional roller coaster here but I've been surprisingly fine ;) yesterday we had devo with GERALD N LUND!!!! sooooooo cool!!! he talked about receiving revelation and if its just us, satan, or the holy ghost... I have whats called, hormonal revelation... hahahahah which is just me thinking I know whats up and whats suppose to happen and knowing more than God. ya know.. haha I DEFINITELY need to humble myself.. surprise. hahahah so i'll let ya know how thats going..

OK HAYDEN IS GOING TO PROM!?!?!!? AHHHHHHH SOOO HAPPY!!!!! I better get some pics!!! :) good job boy ;) how are you mom, are you training for anything yet?? thanks for tryin to get me some envelopes and stamps. Hopefully I'll get them soon! I LOVE YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!! I love you so so so much!! I don't think I realized how much I love my family until now. ITS CRAZY HOW MUCH I MISS y'all!!! <3 miss you too much. cant wait to hear from you again muahhh. until next week. Chao.